Iraq Business News brings you the latest news on developments & opportunities in education and training in Iraq.
The Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) Department of Information Technology, in cooperation with the US Army’s J6 Directorate based in Iraq, launched an extensive 12 week training programme in Erbil this week. The goal of the IT Professional Development Programme is to develop local capacity and create a professional foundation for IT managers and staff within […]
On 6 June, the European Union and Government of Iraq launched a major programme to improve the future of young Iraqis. The programme will be implemented though the British Council, the United Kingdom’s international cultural and educational agency. It will: Improve education standards in 1,700 schools through improved teacher training. This will benefit 800,000 pupils […]
By T. Keyzom Ngodup, co-founder and Executive Director at Ideas sYnergy, an Iraq based private sector development consulting company. Most development agendas for Iraq putatively support entrepreneurship and the need to support private sector development through its focus on the growing number of unemployed youth in the country. UK’s Department for International Development (DFID) recently […]
Basra University has entered into a joint agreement with the American University of Oregon, for the development of English language competence in the areas of petroleum engineering and geology at the University. An official source at the university said the agreement aimed at developing the English language capability of the teaching staff and students of […]
Iraq is not just a nodding donkey. The country's progress can be seen not just in its growing population of oil wells, nor even merely in its breeding building sites. It can also be admired in its rapid expansion in education. Najaf, a city of around 600,000 people south of Baghdad, is to build 15 […]
Czech prime minister Petr Nečas brought a large delegation of businessmen, as well as the minister of defense and the minister of trade and industry, with him to Iraq this week, according to Aswat Al-Iraq. Revealing his commitment and belief in the economic benefits of a good relationship with Iraq, the Czech premier announced that his country […]
London Corporate Training (LCT) welcomed this week the first group of Iraqi businessmen and women to come to London since it signed an agreement with the Kurdistan Federation of Chambers of Commerce in Erbil, capital of Kurdistan, earlier this year. Ian Mann, Managing Director of London Corporate Training said, “Under this agreement groups of senior […]
ExxonMobil Iraq Limited is contributing 1.2 billion Iraqi dinar (US$1 million) to equip petroleum engineering laboratories at the University of Basrah to be used by students seeking careers in Iraq's oil and gas industry. This grant will also fund faculty and curriculum development under which some 46,000 students are expected to study over the next […]
Iraq has approved an ambitious $37-billion [45 trillion Iraqi dinar] programme to upgrade Iraq's collapsing infrastructure, which has fallen victim to three decades of war and sanctions, government spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh (pictured) said on Tuesday. AFP reports that the cabinet's plans, which must now be approved by parliament, are the latest in efforts by the […]
According to a report from Azzaman, the Province of Najaf is to build 10,000 flats to house school teachers as part of a new policy to upgrade education in schools across the province. Governor Adnan al-Zarqai said his local administration has decided to place more emphasis on developing all aspects of education in the province. […]
A delegation from Al-Rahmani Group visited Basra Investment Commission (BIC) and presented a plan to construct a technical training centre in a cost of $5 million [6 billion Iraqi dinars]. The executive chairman of the group, Eng. Raid Al-Rahmani, said, "our plan includes the construction of a training centre to develop the local working staff […]
University Research Co., LLC (URC) has been awarded a $74,855,589, four-year contract from the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) to provide support to the Iraqi Ministry of Health (MoH) to support the Ministry’s strategic plan to achieve better quality primary health care. URC will manage this project together with Management Systems Internationaland Sallyport, in […]
